Who dies: share of all deaths, by age and sex

Mortality in Zimbabwe, 1999

Zimbabwe
1999
Life expectancy: 46.4
Life expectancy at birth, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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-5 -1   1999  +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Zimbabwe was 46.4 years in 1999: 47.8 for women and 45.0 for men, a gap of 2.8 years. 187,271 people died; 18.1% of them were 65 or older and 20.6% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
46.4
Women
47.8
Men
45.0
Life expectancy at 65
11.4
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
62.2
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
96.3
Deaths
187,271
Deaths per 1,000 people
15.9
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
677
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
617
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1999's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.
Deaths per 1,000 people per year in each age group. Logarithmic scale: each gridline is ten times the one below. Hover for exact values.
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Show the life table data
AgeDeath rate, women (‰)Death rate, men (‰)Years left, womenYears left, men
059.1871.2147.845.0
1-48.909.7449.747.3
5-92.412.9047.445.1
10-142.172.3943.040.7
15-194.244.2438.436.2
20-248.388.1234.231.9
25-2914.3313.5130.528.1
30-3419.5720.0227.624.9
35-3924.1027.2125.222.2
40-4425.9932.1023.120.1
45-4928.1236.0520.918.2
50-5431.1740.0618.716.3
55-5935.5344.5416.514.4
60-6444.0855.4514.212.4
65-6956.3267.5512.110.5
70-7468.6182.8510.28.8
75-7984.77106.898.47.1
80-84114.40149.456.65.5
85-89174.49216.144.94.2
90-94252.10298.633.63.2
95-99351.00398.612.72.4
100+470.32512.062.12.0